...and predicted on-target activity was balanced with predicted off-target activity when selecting guides....lower off-target activity, but it could also be caused by a reduction of on-target activity. However, there...-target activity, Morgens et al drew some generalizable conclusions about off-target activity, demonstrate...off-target cutting without a reduction of on-target activity, but it’s unclear if this holds true in genome-wide...sites that lack open chromatin marks, DNase hypersensitivity, or are in an enhancer, transcription factor...characteristics that influence gRNA off-target activity: 1) mismatches closer to the PAM are less tolerated...guides with high GC content have greater off-target activity.
Short gRNAs have lower off-target cutting and...